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15th November 1969: 500,000 people march on Washington in the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam

Over 500,000 protesters marched on Washington D.C. as part of the national Moratorium to End the War in ...

14th November 1990: Margaret Thatcher’s fifteen year leadership of the British Conservative Party challenged by Michael Heseltine

Thatcher became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the General Election of 1979 but by the late 1980s her popularity, along with that of her party, was ...

13th November 1002: English King Æthelred the Unready ‘ordered slain all the Danish men who were in England’ in what became known as the Saint Brice’s Day Massacre

While it is believed that there was considerable loss of life, actual numbers of Danes who were killed in the St Brice's Day Massacre are ...

12th November 1927: Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party of the USSR

Trotsky had been a key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution of ...

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

On the 11th November 1918, fighting on the First World War’s Western Front ended when representatives from the Allies and Germany signed the Armistice of ...

10th November 1969: Sesame Street broadcast for the first time on American television

Sesame Street was first conceived in 1966 as a way to provide low-income, inner-city children with an educational foundation ready for when they began formal ...

9th November 1918: Wilhelm II abdicates as Kaiser of Germany

Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated as German Emperor and King of Prussia after the German Revolution took ...

8th November 1520: The Stockholm Bloodbath begins under Denmark’s Christian II

Christian II had invaded Sweden in an attempt to preserve the Kalmar Union that joined the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Sweden and Norway under a single ...

7th November 1492: Oldest meteorite with a known date of impact

The oldest meteorite with a known date of impact crashed into a wheat field outside the Alsatian town of ...

6th November 1975: The Sex Pistols play their first gig at St Martin’s College of Art in London

The Sex Pistols supported pub rock band Bazooka Joe and played a few cover songs on equipment borrowed from the headliners, but the plug was pulled after twenty ...